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ANNIVERSARY 

THE HAMPTON NORMAL AND 

AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE 

HAMPTON, VIRGINIA 



PROGRAM 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 

— Arrive at Old Point 

THURSDAY, MAY 11 

— Inspection of Trade School and Agn- 
cultural Buildings. Battalion drill. 
Luncheon at the Mansion House. 
Laying cornerstone of the Robert. 
C. Ogden Auditorium. Trustees' 
evening 

FRIDAY, MAY 12 

— Meeting of the National Hampton 
Association in Museum at 10:30 a. m. 
Battalion drill. Luncheon at the 
home of Mrs. Purves. Anniversary 
exercises in the Gymnasium 

SATURDAY, MAY 13 

— Guests leave Old Point 



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THE NATIONAL HAMPTON ASSOCIATION 

IH^a^S a revelation of the spirit of Hampton's friends and their work through 
^^^^ organized effort, the brief notes of the growth and accomplishment of 
^^^^ the Hampton clubs and associations will be of immediate interest to all 
^^Qg members of the National Hampton Association. 

The brief accompanying reports were dispatched at short notice by re- 
quest of the Executive Secretary, and although not intended for publication they 
prove so clearly the value of associated effort in Hampton's behalf, and throw 
such helpful light upon the problems and methods of organization, that we print 
them in the present form strictly for use among Association members. 

In no case was it the object of the Associations to give a full report for the 
present pamphlet. Following the National Hampton Association meeting at 
Hampton during Anniversary week it is hoped to publish a full report of the 
meeting with suggestions for future organization, reports from each Association, 
and a brief history of each society. 

The Hampton Associations, as requested, have sent now only the briefest 
account of their beginnings, their growth, and their work. 

In these modest statements of work done for Hampton by her Associations 
the half has not been told. Yet in them there are inspiration and suggestion for 
all those who read of the devotion of those who have labored that Hampton shall 
not go down. 

THE BOSTON HAMPTON COMMITTEE 

MRS. DUDLEY L. PICKMAN, President 

MRS. JAMES MEANS, Secretary 

MISS ALICE P. TAPLEY, Treasurer 

MRS. WM. B. EVERETT, Assistant Treasurer 

THE following clipping from the Boston Herald of April 18, 1893, immedi- 
ately after General Armstrong, Hampton's founder, was stricken with para- 
lysis, gives some idea of the manner in which Boston friends rallied to the support 
of the school :— 

" The meeting at the Old South Meeting House yesterday afternoon was a 
success from every point of view. Rev. Edward Everett Hale presided. The 
chairman read a letter from Governor Russell in which he expressed his appreci- 
ation of the work of the Institute and his sympathy with the meeting. 

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"Lieutenant-Governor Wolcott was introduced and said it was a peculiar 
satisfaction to him to give his own testimony regarding the work which the 
school was doing. Mr. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, a graduate of 
Hampton, now teaching at Tuskegee, told what Hampton and similar schools 
had done for the Negro in the South and contrasted the Negro uneducated with 
the Negro educated. Rev. H. B. Frissell, General Armstrong's right-hand man 
in the work of the Institute, was next introduced. 

"The old friends who first ralHed to General Armstrong's help are dying off 
and others must be found to take their places. Dr. Hale, before dismissing the 
audience, announced that to the committee for raising money for the present needs 
of the Institute, consisting of Rev. Samuel Eliot, Henry Woods, R, H, Stearnes, 
Elbridge Torrey, Edward G. Porter, Edwin B. Mead, Frank Wood, Joshua W. 
Davis, Mary Hemenway, Mary B. Claflin, Ellen F. Mason, Alice Freeman Palmer, 
the following names had been added : Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D., Prof. 
F. G. Peabody, Rev. Philip Moxom, Rev. George A. Gordon, D. D., Mr. S. B. 
Capen, Mrs. James T. Fields, Mrs. S. H. Bullard, Mrs. Charles Fairchild, Mr. 
A. M. Howe, Mr. George Henry Quincy, Lieut-Gov. Roger Wolcott, Mrs. H. W. 
Foote." 

Of its subsequent growth the Treasurer writes as follows :— 

The Boston Hampton Committee was formed in 1893 by Mrs. Stephen Bullard, 
who invited a selected number of ladies to become members. It has always been 
a very informal organization. In the early days the money was raised by enter- 
tainments or by personal solicitation. One year we divided the Committee into 
groups of three members, who tried to raise $70 scholarships, one for each group. 
After a few years it was decided to try sending out a printed appeal, which has 
been our method of raising money since then, although this has been supple- 
mented by entertainments, lectures, and summer meetings. 

We began by raising $16.40 and the sum has increased by degrees. We 
have sent to Hampton as much as $11,084.40 in one year, but this and another 
contribution of $11,006.92 were our largest. This year we shall exceed this sum. 
In two instances, sums towards the endowment fund have helped greatly. 

In the beginning we sent out a small number of appeals, but are now send- 
ing out 5000. Our method is to enclose a return envelope and a slip, and, in the 
case of a former contributor, another special slip. This year our meetings have 
been especially interesting as we have had speakers at almost every one. We 
have a President, Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, and a large commit- 
tee. In the beginning each member ( our committee numbered 30 ) paid $2.50 
so that we might send down a Committee Scholarship, but that has been discon- 

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tinued. We meet once a month from November to April, with one omission this 
year. We find it very interesting to have a paper at our meetings from one of 
the Committee on any matter connected with Negro and Indian affairs, whether 
related to the Institute or not. At Christmas time and again in the spring we 
send boxes to Hampton with clothing, pictures, toys, bric-a-brac, and money. 

The following is a brief statement of the Secretary regarding the work of 
the past year :— 

During the past year the work of the Boston Committee has gone steadily 
on. It has held regular meetings, where reports have been made, and there 
have been most interesting discussions of the different phases of work for the 
Negro and Indian. The Committee arranged a course of lectures by Mr. Alfred 
W. Martin, whose thoughtful work is known to many people. These lectures 
helped to increase the sum sent to Hampton. 

As usual, at Christmas time and in the spring, generous gifts of clothing 
and other things have been sent to Hampton to be most gratefully received 
there, and given to many people. A few weeks ago the Committee was glad to 
bear its part in helping to make a success of the public meeting in Symphony 
Hall which was under the charge of the Massachusetts Hampton Association, 
where a large audience listened to stirring addresses and sweet music, and must 
have gone away with renewed interest in the work of Hampton and the wish 
to help it. 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT 



Receipts 

Balance Jan. 1, 1915 

Subscriptions and donations . . . . 

From Magnolia and Nahant meet- 
ings 

From Mr. Martin's lectures . . . 

From meeting at Women's City 
Club 

For the Christmas box 

Sent for use in 1916 

Interest on deposits 



$2.79 
9,035.00 

428.00 
436.50 

14.25 
35.00 
30.00 
10.41 

$9,991.95 



Expenditures 

Printing and postage . . . . , 

"Palace of Delight" 

Packing, freight, and collecting 

checks . 

Sent to Hampton 

Balance 



$251.12 
50.00 

9.71 

9,650.00 

31.12 



$9,991.95 



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THE BROOKLYN ARMSTRONG ASSOCIATION 

FRANK L. BABBOTT, President 

MRS. WILLIAM OILMAN LOW, Vice President 

HENRY SHERMAN ADAMS, Secretary 

HENRY B. VAN SINDEREN, Treasurer 

MRS. CHARLES W. IDE 

GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY 

WALTER H. CRITTENDEN 

THE foundation of the Brooklyn Armstrong Association in 1907, for the 
purpose of stimulating interest in the work of Hampton Institute in 
particular and the uplift of the Negro and Indian races in general, was 
due primarily to geographical reasons. Brooklyn, through its absorption by 
the greater city, became some years before a part of the field covered by the 
New York Armstrong Association, but the influence of the latter had extended 
very little across the East River and it was felt that the vast population 
of the borough called for independent effort. The results have in every 
respect quite justified this feeling. 

The activities of the Association, aside from the routine work of collecting 
membership dues and subscriptions for Hampton scholarships and the general 
fund of the Institute, are concentrated in a biennial public meeting to keep 
public interest alive, with a gathering of the members, usually at a private 
house, in the alternate years. The public meetings have had, as their special 
Hampton features, industrial exhibitions and motion pictures, with songs by 
either a quartet or a choir of the students ; in one instance there were 
Indian and African dances as well. Aside from the addresses by Dr. Frissell, 
Major Moton, and other representatives of Hampton Institute, there has usually 
been an outside speaker known to take particular interest in the work of 
the school. One of the largest of such meetings was in Plymouth Church, 
when Hon. William H. Taft was the principal speaker. The attendance has 
ranged from twelve hundred to more than two thousand. On one occasion an 
exception to the general plan was made and a nativity play was presented, 
while another year there was an organ recital. For the play, tickets were sold. 
In the other cases all the seats were reserved but the tickets were distributed 
gratis to members and other applicants. Our policy is not to give any 
entertainment for which tickets are sold, and it is not likely to be departed 
from again. In recent years, however, we have taken up a collection at these 
meetings and have found it a very satisfactory way of adding to the 

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contributions of the Association to Hampton Institute. Such collections go 
intact to the school, as all the expenses of the meetings are met through 
the voluntary generosity of a few of the members. 

At the alternate gatherings there are one or more informal addresses on 
Hampton's work and some songs by the students, the evening's program 
being followed by an hour or so of social intercourse. Light refreshments 
are served and the very moderate expenses of the affairs are paid privately. 

The main strength of our financial aid to Hampton Institute lies, of 
course, in its membership dues and the subscriptions made through the 
Association. We are happy, and certainly more than fortunate, to be able to 
say that every penny of such collections goes to the school; for here again 
all the expenses — which are never very heavy, as there are no salaries or 
office expenses— are met privately. Until two years ago there were three 
classes of paying members— annual at $2.00, sustaining at $5.00, and life 
at $50.00. There were also honorary members, who were exempt from dues. 
The plan now is to make any contribution, from two dollars up, constitute 
membership for the current year. No bills are sent out, but a contribution 
blank is forwarded with the booklets containing the annual reports. Thus 
far the change of plan has been satisfactory. While new members are 
frequently added to the list by personal solicitation, the fixed rule of the 
Association is to make no direct appeals for contributions; the idea is to arouse 
interest to a point where donations shall be a voluntary matter. 

The active work of the Association is conducted by an executive committee, 
which consists of the officers and twelve others, and meets at the home 
of one of the members as frequently as occasion requires. The committee 
is always represented on the annual spring excursion to Hampton Institute 
for the Anniversary exercises. Although this excursion is not a Brooklyn 
Armstrong Association affair, some of our most active members participate in 
it regularly and we feel that as a source of fresh inspiration it should be 
looked upon as an incidental factor in our work. We make a strong effort 
to induce members and others who have never been to Hampton, but who 
might perhaps become generous contributors if they had first-hand knowledge, 
to go down and see things as they are. 



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The amounts forwarded to Hampton Institute by this Association are as 
follows: 

1907 - - . . 125.00 

*1908 ----- 6000.00 

1909 - - - - 1700.00 

1910 ----- 1940.00 

1911 - - - - 2870.00 

1912 ----- 3315.10 

1913 - - - - 3000.00 
1914 3900.00 

11915 . - - - 43,465.00 



3,315.10 



* Includes special gift of $6000 

t Includes special ^ft of $40,000 for the Robert C. Ogden Scholarship Fund 

Henry Sherman Adams, 

Secretary 

THE HAMPTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK 

WILLIAM JAY SCHIEFFELIN, President 
ELBRIDGE L. ADAMS, Chairman Executive Committee 
MISS MARY N. POPHAM, Secretary 

THE Armstrong Association was founded in 1893 in the City of New York, 
by an earnest group of the friends of Hampton, to help the school, 
in the most trying period of its history, shortly after its founder. General 
Armstrong, was stricken with paralysis, when the institution for which he 
had practically given his life was most sorely in need. 

The object of the organization was expressed as follows: " The Armstrong 
Association is formed in aid of Hampton Institute, to organize and extend 
public interest in its important work. In adopting General Armstrong's name 
it starts at once with the strongest element of personal enthusiasm, and it 
hopes to aid in making the school an enduring monument to his consecrated 
service." 

Its membership has grown to almost a thousand. Only a small part of 
the benefit to Hampton and the Negro have been the direct donations of 
the Association to the school. It has increasingly realized its object to organize 
and extend public interest in the work of Hampton. 

The Hampton Association of New York, to which the original name was 

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changed after twenty years of service, is unique among the Hampton Associations 
in that it has helped to build up a large constituency for the school without 
endeavoring to direct the flow of funds through its local office. The original 
dues of two dollars per annum, recently changed to voluntary subscriptions, 
from its large list of members, have maintained an office and paid secretary, 
while the gifts which go direct to the school from members of the Association 
are more than ten-fold the average amount of the income of the society. 

Another unique feature of the New York Hampton Association has 
been its interest and support of other organizations for the Negro, including 
Tuskegee, the Music School Settlement of New York, and an employment 
bureau for worthy colored workers. 

It has annually spread the knowledge and principles of Hampton and 
Tuskegee to thousands by the great meetings held in Carnegie Hall, New 
York. These have become almost annual events, which, because of the 
loyal support of a large membership, seldom fail of success. Under the auspices 
of this Association, many of the leaders best known to America have championed 
the cause of Hampton and Tuskegee from the platform of Carnegie Hall. 
Upon the programs of the Association meetings have appeared such names 
as Grover Cleveland, William H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Choate, 
Booker T. Washington, Charles Eliot, Andrew Carnegie, and Seth Low. 

During the past winter, the New York Hampton Association undertook 
the management of the Booker T. Washington Memorial Meeting which 
proved such a remarkable tribute to the famous leader of his race. Through 
the past year the Association has also been the headquarters of the Ogden 
Memorial Fund, to aid which it has given its offices and the services of its 
secretary. 

THE ORANGE HAMPTON CLUB 

MRS. CLARENCE H. KELSEY, President 
MRS. A. H. LAMSON, First Vice President 
MISS ANNIE TAYLOR, Second Vice President 
MISS SOPHIA WALLACE, Recording Secretary 
MRS. LORENZO BENEDICT, Treasurer 

YOU asked for data of the Orange Hampton Club. It was founded April 13, 
1887. There were eight ladies present at the first meeting. From the begin- 
ning, Christmas boxes have been sent every year to the schools taught by 
Hampton graduates. The number has varied, but at present we send four, 

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We must have sent about one hundred and fifty of these boxes during all these 
years. We sew at the monthly meetings, and make articles for the boxes, 
principally workbags, aprons, dresses, etc. We also buy toys and games and 
other small articles for them, and ask for donations of second-hand clothing. 

We have both active and associate members. The active members attend the 
monthly sewing meetings. The associates pay dues of one dollar a year. We 
support two seventy-dollar scholarships, and this year, through the generosity 
of one of our members, we have a third. We have had about twenty-eight 
students under our care, and their records have been good. I had them looked 
up and presented at the annual meeting last year. Our active list is limited to 
thirty-five members, as we meet at a private house; we have thirty-three at 
present and an associate list of about one hundred and ten. 

I think it is really quite remarkable that this little club has lived so long in a 
place where there are so many local charities as in Orange. At times I have 
feared its days were numbered, but just now it seems to be in an unusually good 
condition, financially and otherwise. The meetings have been more largely 
attended this winter than ever, and the treasurer's report will be the best, I 
think, that we have ever had. 

We have never raised money for the Club by entertainments or by soliciting 
in any way, and in that I think we are unique. The other day one of our associate 
members, in paying her annual dues, sent a check for ten dollars instead of one. 

Elizabeth B. Kelsey 

President 



THE PHILADELPHIA HAMPTON COMMITTEE 

DR. CHARLES T. HATFIELD, Chairman 
MISS MARGARET MELLOR, Secretary 

SOME years ago, a Friend from Philadelphia, a young man of wealth and 
social position, went to Hampton and spent a year there as a teacher, 
learning its methods and becoming familiar with the conditions and needs of 
the Negro race. He then returned to his native city and is devoting his life to 
studying and helping the Philadelphia Negro— the class which, perhaps, most 
needs help in the City of Brotherly Love. He opened an office and formed an 
organization to help members of that race to better schools, better opportunities 
of service, better cooperation with one another. He felt that Philadelphia 
ought to know more of Hampton's work and to help more towards its support. 

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A few citizens of Philadelphia have for years been loyal supporters of the 
school, but it was felt that a local committee with a paid secretary and an office 
in the city would help to make Hampton's work better known. The Committee 
has been formed. The young Friend has allowed his office to be used as head- 
quarters; appeals have been sent out; meetings have been held; and a successful 
beginning has been made. 

The work was started just when the financial condition of the country 
was at a low ebb, and this crisis was followed immediately by the war. In 
spite of this the number of Philadelphia subscribers has increased fifty per cent 
during the past year (1915). 

Meetings have been held at the following places:— 

Parlor meeting at the home of Miss Coles 

Parlor meeting at the home of Miss Esther Lloyd 

University of Pennsylvania Y. M. C. A. 

Haverford College 

Swarthmore College 

The Misses Shipley's School 

Friends' Select School 

Durham School 

The Woman's Club, Swarthrtiore 

Franklin Inn Club 

Chestnut Hill Academy 

Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia 

First Presbyterian Church, Germantown 

First Presbyterian Church, Doylestown 
A play given by Negro and Indian Hampton students was presented twice 
on the campus of Haverford College. 

A rally was held in January at St. Stephen's Parish House for all Hampton 
graduates and ex-students who live in or near Philadelphia. The interest taken 
in the work of the Philadelphia Hampton Committee was indeed gratifying ; and 
the Philadelphia Hampton Alumni Association has been formed with the object 
of keeping in touch with the work and of maintaining a scholarship at Hampton. 
A delegation of sixteen Philadelphians was secured for the special Hampton 
Trip in April. The trip as usual was a great success, and the party of over one 
hundred representative men and women from New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, 
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and other cities was delightfully entertained at Hampton, 
finding much of interest during their few days' visit. 

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FINANCIAL STATEMENT 

Balance on hand June 1, 1914 . . . $106. 11 All contributions, receipts from meetings, 

Received from Hampton for current etc., forwarded intact to the Treasurer of 

expenses June 1, 1914 to June 1, 1915, 450.00 Hampton Institute, have been in summary as 

$556.11 follows :— 

Paid out by cash 31.72 Balance receipts from June meetings, $534.32 

Paid out by check 420.62 Receipts from January meetings . . . 700.66 

Total expenditure for current expenses Receipts from donations and 

June 1, 1914 to June 1, 1915 . . . 452.24 subscriptions 727.24 



Balance on hand June 1, 1915 .... 103.77 

$556.11 



$ 1962.22 



THE HAMPTON CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS 

MRS. WILLIAM B. MEDLICOTT, President 
MRS. CHARLES W. BURT, Treasurer 

THE Hampton Club of Springfield, Massachusetts, began its existence in 1881— 
thirty-five years ago. The first meeting was held at the home of Mrs. 
George Howard, with twenty-one members. Mrs. Howard became its first pres- 
ident and continued in office for twenty-five years. No record was kept for the 
first year, but in 1882 Miss Ida Southworth, now Mrs. Solomon Griffin, became 
its first treasurer. 

During twenty-four years the club has sent to Hampton $12,821.77, to 
Tuskegee, $800, to Miss Georgia Washington, $625, and to the Dixie Hospital, 
$600, making a total of $14,846.77 or an average of about $650 a year. 

The active membership of the club is limited to 100. The honorary member- 
ship is now 96. At the present time ( 1916 ) the meetings are held every two 
weeks in private houses. 

The Springfield Hampton Club has now at Hampton two permanent academic 
scholarships called, in memory of a valued member of the club, the Elizabeth 
Mitchell Ames Scholarships, We send every year two academic scholarships, 
and another is added by a charter member of the club, Mrs Solomon Griffin. 

In 1912 we were able to send $200 to Hampton to be used for special needs, 
such as a drive press for the blacksmith shop ; for the agricultural department 
two farm levels for surveying for drainage; a new typewriter for the Publication 
Office and an up-to-date dictionary contributed by the G. C. Merriam Company. 

We also gave a radiopticon for the Shellbanks farmhouse. In the same year 
the club sent $200 to Miss Georgia Washington to enable her to pipe her laundry 
for convenience in washing. 

Interest in the club has been stimulated by sending delegates on the 
Hampton Trip to attend the Anniversary exercises. 

Grace Harding Medlicott, President 

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THE TAUNTON HAMPTON ASSOCIATION 

MRS. HERBERT FISHER, Secretary 
MISS EDITH B. SEIBEL, Treasurer 

A LADY of Boston stimulated an interest in the Taunton Branch of the Hamp- 
ton Association, organized in Taunton January 25, 1900. A board of offi- 
cers was appointed at that time. 

The Association began by supporting an academic scholarship of $ 70, assess- 
ing each member of the Association $1.00 annually. It is called "The Harriet 
Beecher Stowe Scholarship," The following year, in 1901, it was raised to a full 
scholarship of $100 and has thus been maintained. 

A meeting of the Hampton Association is held each year in February, when 
members are invited to pay dues; it is preceded by a business meeting of the Board 
of Directors. The entertainment of the annual meeting is varied, but generally 
has a bearing on the colored race. A speaker tells of the need of uplifting the 
Negro, and of the efforts of the Institute at Hampton in that direction. Letters 
from the recipient of the scholarship are read, and music is often furnished in a 
sympathetic and artistic manner by the Hampton Quartet. 

The Association has arranged for public meetings in behalf of Hampton In- 
stitute, where plantation songs were sung, a graduate gave a history of his life, 
and a speaker from Hampton described its work, illustrating his talk with the 
stereopticon. A collection was taken for the benefit of Hampton Institute. 

The records show the death of one scholarship student. Miss Georgia Elliott. 
Another, Miss Linnie Lumpkins, married the instructor in agriculture at the 
Penn School. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Scholarship is now paying the tuition 
of its fifth student. 

Mrs. Herbert Fisher, Secretary 



THE WORCESTER HAMPTON ASSOCIATION 

MRS. FRANCIS A. KINNICUTT, Chairman 

THE Worcester Branch of the Massachusetts Hampton Association is so very 
new that I feel there is little of interest to report. 

A Hampton meeting was held on January 21 in Central Church, Worcester, 
with an attendance of about five hundred people. No special appeal for money 

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was made at the meeting, as two campaigns to raise $50,000 each were being 
carried on that week, and we did not feel that it was at all a wise thing to make 
an urgent request for money. A collection was taken and amounted to $115. 

After that meeting a permanent committee was formed consisting of Mrs. 
Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Chairman, Mrs. F. F. Dresser, Mrs. Ira N. Hollis, and 
Mrs. Leonard Wheeler. This committee agreed to serve with the understanding 
that no active work be done until next autumn. Mrs. P. W. Moen gave her an- 
nual subscription of $50 through this committee in March, and we have sent 
Hampton $165.49 in all. Worcester people have given individually to Hampton 
for many years but there has been no organization until this winter. 

Mrs. Francis A. Kinnicutt 
Chairman 



IN connection with the reports of the various Hampton organizations at the 
annual meeting, which will be published later, it is hoped to include brief his- 
torical sketches of the Massachusetts Hampton Association and the Armstrong 
League of New York. 



THE NATIONAL HAMPTON ASSOCIATION 

IN active aid to Hampton, the past year has been a record one for the groups 
comprising the National Hampton Association. In addition to the suc- 
cessful meetings held in the largest halls of the greatest centers of the Eastern 
Seaboard, including New York, Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia, every 
Hampton organization has been visited by a representative from the school. 

The statements which precede this report bear witness to the activity and 
enthusiasm of each group of workers for Hampton. In addition to their 
activities and donations, which have been in part recorded, the members have 
taken a large share in the National Memorial to Mr. Ogden, which marks a new 
period in the growth of the school. 

Fully fifty per cent of the amounts received to date for the Ogden Memo- 
rial Auditorium has come from members of the Hampton Associations. Omitting 
altogether the aid to the school from the local appeals to their communities, the 
brief statement of the winter meetings aided by the clubs of Boston, Phila- 
delphia, Brooklyn, Taunton, and Worcester alone, shows over $8000 as their 
immediate result. 

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The value to the school of such advocates of its work as ex-President Taf t, 
Governor McCall, Major Robert R. Moton, Congressman Montague, Honorable 
Seth Low, and Honorable George McAneny, who spoke in behalf of Hampton in 
the same chain of meetings arranged by the Associations, can hardly be esti- 
mated. 

The New York Hampton Association paid a fitting tribute to Booker T. 
Washington by arranging the memorial meeting in Carnegie Hall, from which 
more than three thousand people were turned away, as speakers of two races 
from the North and South bore witness to his greatness. 

In view of the unusual activity during the past winter within the Hampton 
organizations and within the school — activity which augurs solid growth for both— 
the efforts of the officers of the National Association have been given to meet 
immediate needs, and little opportunity has been afforded to organize new 
fields for the future. 

Through the columns of the Southern Workman, the Executive Secretary 
has endeavored to keep in closer touch with the members. Letters have been 
sent to the various Associations requesting information and suggestions. In 
the case of several, closer contact between offices at the North and the school office 
has been effected. Whenever possible, the Executive Secretary has visited the 
officers. Material for appeals has been supplied from the Hampton office, and 
on one occasion it was privileged to send an emergency speaker for a special 
meeting of an Association. 

By the kindness of their leaders the Executive Secretary has been enabled 
to publish the accompanying notes upon the history and growth of the present 
Hampton Associations. These brief outlines of their growth and work have 
both interest and inspiration. They should prove a basis for discussion of future 
plans, and growth of new alliances. 

Suggestions as to methods and organization have been requested of the 
Executive Secretary and may not be out of place here. A thorough appreciation 
of the spirit and work of allied groups would cement each club into a 
more effective alliance. The publication of the annual reports made at each 
Hampton Anniversary, with sketches of the history of each organization 
and stories of the lives of those Negro and Indian men and women whom 
each Association has sent, through Hampton, to help their people in the 
South or West, would have fresh interest each year. To the workers and 
students at Hampton the stories of the Hampton clubs would be an inspiration. 
The publication of the history of several of them in the Southern Workman 
would strengthen the hands of the Faculty and of other workers. Also friends 

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of the school in other cities would thus be interested to form similar alliances. 

A service to the school and its graduates might be given and a strong 
basis of appeal made by sending letters from each Association to the graduates 
who are beneficiaries of its scholarships. By cooperation with Hampton's 
record offices, the life stories of the graduates helped by these scholarships 
could be obtained. Their records could be made the subject of interesting 
discussion at monthly meetings, and would be valuable material in the files 
of the National Association's headquarters as well as for publication in the 
Southern Workman. An inventory every fall of the human investments of each 
Association would prove of no small value and interest. 

Owing to the proposed plans for the executive offices of the school, it 
has been impossible to secure suitable space for the National Hampton 
Association this year. A large, airy office with files for each organization 
and with a reference library, is planned as headquarters of the National 
Association and of its members while at Hampton. 

A list of one hundred of the most prominent friends of the school whom 
the Associations may invite to speak at semi-annual meetings has been prepared. 
To avoid straining the good will of such true friends of Hampton, careful 
cooperation with the home office is strongly urged. 

The success of the appeals and pamphlets mailed by the Committees of 
Boston and Brooklyn is worthy of note. It is suggested that other Associations 
may extend their influence and membership by this means. 

Although the past year has been marked by intensive cultivation of 
the present field of Hampton organizations, the time is ripe for the formation 
of several new Associations. A glimpse at the history of the several clubs 
of Hampton's friends is proof that each has worked out its own salvation in its 
own manner with a splendid devotion to the school. To request a set standard of 
organization, ignoring the local traditions and needs of the loyal groups of 
Hampton's friends who give so freely and untiringly of their time and means 
to aid the school, would prove disastrous. The imposition of an artificial 
organization upon certain distant cities which contribute largely to the school 
would defeat its object by dividing the constituency of Hampton in those 
communities into groups consisting of those without and those within the 
organization. 

Where there is little intimate knowledge of Hampton the task of rallying 
different elements and social groups to the support of a distant institution is 
next to impossible. To successfully establish a new organization, the most 
painstaking, personal work should be given, and only such an Association 

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as may grow spontaneously and naturally from a small group of Hampton's 
friends contains the germ of success. Much should be gained from discussions 
and decisions regarding extension work at the annual meeting of the National 
Hampton Association. 

By small beginnings, with select groups, the Executive Secretary would 
strongly recommend the founding of Hampton Associations in Richmond, 
Virginia; New London and Hartford, Connecticut; Syracuse, New York; 
and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

Respectfully submitted, 

Sydney Dodd Frissell, 

Executive Secretary 



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